Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-10
CAPITAL NOTES.
NAn1soN. March g. 1ss1.

est progress OF any Tor many years.
The session is now two months long,
and the minimum Of work accom-
plished is without parallel. At
the same rate it would take two or
three months more to properly dis
pose Of the business in hand. Ad-
journment is expected, however, by
April 10Th. If it occurs then either
a radical Improvement in the dis
patch Of business must be made, or
a great many proposed measures
must be abandoned or disposed of
with inadequate consideration.
As yet nothing is done in the
matter Of redistricting the State,
which alone will require week or
two. Al the important appropria-
ton bills are still in the hands of
committees, with other matters of
moment that are sure to provoke
discussion and absorb time. In fact
but very few matters of more than
local interest have yet progressed
beyond reference to committee.
This state of affairs is mainly
chargeable to the pernicious habit
of adiourning each week from Fri
day morning to Monday evening.
On adjournment Friday mornings
members all go home or elsewhere.
No committee work is done between
Thursday afternoon and Tuesday
afternoon of the following week, SO
that only Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday are full working days.
Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays
but little being done to advance
business.
The strenuous efforts of some Of
the University Regents to defeat
Senator Cooper's resolution for an
investigation of the expenditures on
the Science Hall buildings; and the
brow beating manner of the same
parties toward the friends of said
resolution, might suggest a suspicion
that there are some things about the
construction of the work, which it
il not desirable to have too closely
scrutiuized. Until these methods
were resorted TO it was everywhere
taken for granted that the only
censue TO be placed upon the Re
gents was for presuming to incur an
expenditure double that provided
for or contemplated, or thought
necessary at the time the appropria.
ton was made. We are still conf
dent that an investigation will dc
yelop nothing worse than ill-adyised
exercise of authority, by which the
Legislature is compelled to make
further appropriation than it might
otherwise do, in order that the eX-
trayagant outlay already made may
not be entirely wasted, and, in ad.
dition, it may perhaps appear that
very defective judgment was used
in carrying the work to that stage
where it remains through the winter
wholly unprotected, and surely much
damaged. If there was wisdom in
borrowing $4,000 to carry the work
to it's present stage last fall, there
was folly in not ineurring enough
more debt to put on at least a tenn
porary roof and board mp the doors
and windows TO keep ont the snow
and rain. 1t IS said that after com
pleting tho minor buildings per
tanning to the scientific department
the Regents found they had left of
the appropriation Of 1855, about
100000. With this sum they cal
culated they could pat mp the wall.
and roof Of Science Hall proper
So the work was begun rhe 500,
GEO was expended, and tho building
not in such state as expected. Again
they estimated; aud borrowed SEQ,
600 to carry the work to proper
stage to rest through winter That
amount was expended, and yet thC
work was unprotected from the
damaging effects Of winter, about
So, 900 more being found necessary
to roof it. Not having The 5000
work was stopped, and there stand
the unprotected walls Ii there j.
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